BUSINESS-MINDED: Hsieh said selecting someone with experience as a top company executive to serve as premier would boost efficiency and keep spending reasonable
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) said yesterday that President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) supported his suggestion to appoint someone with a background as a top business executive to fill the position of premier.

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In Washington, the CIA concluded that a Pakistani tribal leader's network was behind the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, a US intelligence official said, while Pakistani authorities said they arrested a teen allegedly linked to the plot.

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A Canadian member of al-Qaeda with ties to Osama bin Laden was sentenced to life in jail by a New York court on Friday for plotting in 2001 to bomb US embassies in Manila and Singapore.

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RECONSIDER: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Israel to reverse its decision to close border crossings into the Gaza Strip and warned of a humanitarian catastrophe
Israeli air strikes killed two Hamas militants in Gaza early yesterday, a day after Israel sealed the territory and bombed an empty Hamas government ministry in an intensifying campaign to halt rocket fire on Israeli border towns.

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The People Power Party (PPP), which supports former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, unveiled a coalition government yesterday, capping a dramatic political turnaround 16 months after Thaksin's ouster.

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